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Wastes Discussion

1 day ago

Hey, saw your forum topic asking for help.

Eladamri's Call
and
Congregation at Dawn
are good instant creature tutors. Dawn is nice because it's budget and it can tutor for three combo creatures and put them on top of your library.
Palace Jailer
is good with blink. You exile an opponent's creature with Jailer and usually with this exile effect when the creature leaves the battlefield your opponent gets back their creature, but this is not the case with Jailer.

Your opponent only gets back their creature if an opponent becomes the monarch. Even if Jailer dies your opponent doesn't get back their creature and you can blink Jailer to save it from removal. If you have the monarch and blink Jailer you exile another opponents creature and can continue to do this until an opponent becomes the monarch. You become the monarch when you blink Jailer making it difficult for you to lose the monarch. The monarch is powerful in Commander; drawing a card at your end step. It's nice with
Stonehorn Dignitary
who can help you to keep the monarch thus keeping your opponents creatures exiled.

Yavimaya Coast
,
Bant Panorama
,
Opal Palace
are good budget lands that can make colorless as well as colored mana. Might be worth it to add a
Wastes
that way Farhaven and Simulacrum can search for a colorless source. Consider upgrading your land ramp spells?
Nature's Lore
is a big upgrade of
Rampant Growth
because Lore can search for a dual land. Because you have
Breeding Pool
then Lore can get a blue source, but other than Pool there's other lands it can search for such as Vista, Scattered. Adding a
Temple Garden
would help. As far as land ramp spells
Farseek
and Lore are the two noncreature spells to play since it's much better using deck spots for creatures who land ramp since then you can blink them.

Because of Displacer the exception for noncreature ramp spells are mana rocks that can make colorless mana.
Talisman of Unity
and
Talisman of Progress
are two drop mana rocks that can make colorless or colored mana.
Mystic Remora
is one of the best sources of repeatable no mana cost draw in multiplayer Commander and it's good with blink to reset it's upkeep cost. There's cards here especially Brago that can blink any permanent.

4 days ago

Ancient Tomb
is likely to help you a lot. I don't think the Urza's lands are particularly good, simply because they take far too much to get all out at once;
Wastes
don't need to worry about
Blood Moon
or other non-basic hate.

Timesifter
is possibly one of the most absurd cards in EDH, especially in conjunction with
Sensei's Divining Top
and
Scroll Rack
. In my experience, many EDH decks have low curves when compared to a colorless, eldrazi-based deck; if your meta follows the same pattern, then
Timesifter
will be broken.

Ideally, you're the big-mana deck at the table. I can see you're running a lot of artifact ramp, and depending on which cards are available to you, you should try packing more in (
Thought Vessel
,
Mind Stone
,
Voltaic Key
,
Mana Vault
and
Prismatic Lens
all come to mind).
Trinisphere
and
Sphere of Resistance
are relatively expensive cards, but if you have access to them I would definitely run them (
Damping Sphere
is a cheaper alternative, though it does hurt your own land base). If you have much more mana than your opponents, making them overpay for their spells is generally a good way to make sure you're the only deck moving at a reasonable pace.

In the vein of excess mana,
Blinkmoth Urn
is likely to help you way more than your opponents.
Metalworker
is also a colorless all star, but he's $50 now... which blows.

Drownyard Temple
is an interesting include. I suggest pairing it with
Dust Bowl
. This can frustrate greedy mana bases and give you an outlet for excess mana.

I never use vault and am never happy to draw it. Casting cards is always better. Vault has slight value as a threat but is usually no better than
Wastes
.

Cavern is
Command Tower
about 2/3 of the time, but it can really cause problems when it counts, which is why I never ran
Unclaimed Territory
. The uncounterable creatures ability is not very helpful as our vampires are mostly trash and we would still get a token anyway. Some vampires are worth countering but aside from
Champion of Dusk
I would actually prefer they counter a vampire since that increases the odds of resolving something important later on.

4 weeks ago

1 month ago

Oh man,
Mirage Mirror
. No need to sell me on that card honestly, it's great. The only reason it's not already here is because I've neglected to update this list in a while because I hadn't been able to play much the past couple years. That absolutely needs a spot. I forget it can copy lands, so it can actually be a third way to pull off a sneaky
Dark Depths
combo if need be as well. That's pretty sweet.

I've run
Mindslaver
before here, and I ended up cutting it. It's fun, but I needed the spot for Kaladesh tech. Clutch
Emrakul, the Promised End
casts have won games for me before though.
Helm of Awakening
is pretty gnarly, I may have to test it and see if I can't make it work for me. I'm just not a fan of symmetrical effects.

As for the 100
Strip Mine
s, I put 100 there because it wouldn't let me add a million. "You really need 1000000x Strip Mine, huh?" YES I DO TAPPEDOUT, MAY I PLEASE HAVE THEM? I figure if I keep that there for long enough, I will eventually get at least one.

I could use a sell on
Tangle Wire
. I like it, and I bet I could get it past my group, but how do I break parity with it?
Clock of Omens
kind of things I would guess? I mean, I guess tapping the Wire to itself is a cheeky cheat, but you seem to know something I don't that makes it go from good to incredible.

I'm not sure if you had a way to actually end the game proper from there in mind but this is what I came up with. One player has no deck, and the rest have no boards, so realistically everyone scoops and the hypothetical players here probably never play with me again. God I love colorless.

1 month ago

That was a quick reply. $70 for a mana crypt?? I'm jealous. I'm proud of my collection too, having seen Ugin, Rings, and Crypt all double in price since I bought them.

I completely understand you not wanting to start a stax arms race. I guess some people like untapping their cards, god knows why. I know you've decided against it, but
Tangle Wire
is so stupidly good in EDH, I just have to mention it one more time. Of all the tap effects, Wire holds a special place in my cold, dead heart.

A card I forgot to mention is
Mirage Mirror
, which not only can make a little mana, but can also serve as a sac outlet for Kozi due to the legend rule, as well as serve as an emergency Kozi duplicate WITH HASTE. If you're feeling combo-inclined, Mirror can duplicate
Inventors' Fair
to set up a near-certain win with a double-tutor. Not only that, but you aren't limited to your own permanents. See a
Necropotence
? Now it's MY Necropotence.

Otherwise,
Mindslaver
shenanigans are fun, although I'm sure you were already aware of that.
Helm of Awakening
can be dirty, but you'd better be prepared to win if you play it.

I see you've added 100
Strip Mine
s to the maybeboard. I'm not sure that's enough. Also, I've tried (and cut)
Lotus Petal
myself. It's decent enough in your opening hand, but pretty poor at any other point in the game.

I love coming up with puzzles and challenges involving unique interactions in these sorts of decks. To show off the power of
Mirage Mirror
, I've come up with a puzzle for you.

1 month ago

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